StocktonAfterClass
334 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsRon Stockton was a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for 48 years. His specialty was non-western politics and political change. He taught classes on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion and Politics, the Politics of Revolution, Non-Western politics, and American politics. He also taught in the Honors Program, focusing upon foundational readings from the 18th and 19th centuries. He has an interest in religion and politics and in the role of religio-ethnic groups in the political system. The listener can anticipate talks on Arab-Americans, Jews, African-Americans, the Scots-Irish, and Evangelicals. He has lectured and written on American politics, public opinion, and voting behavior and on the role of religious organizations and ideologies in the political system. There will be occasional discussions of books and films that address serious issues. And he has lectured and published and even taught a class on gravestones, especially those of different ethnic and religious groups such as Muslims, African-Americans, Jews, and Native Americans. The goal of the podcast series is to provide analysis and commentary by a political scientist to explain and make accessible political, historical, and cultural developments in the United States and around the world, and to give the listener analytical tools to understand those developments. It is also to entertain the listener.
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Is Israel an Apartheid State? What does that term mean, and what difference would it make?
July 16, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBI am an academic, not an activist. Maybe I should be an activist, but I am not. In recent months (this is July 2022) the word apartheid has become almost universally used by those who are critical of Israeli occupation policies. This podcast is a discussion of the comparisons between South African Apartheid, which ended in the early 1990s after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and the Israeli policies in the occupied territories. Back in 2005 I had an article in Middle East Jo...
Origins of Islam, Lecture Two
July 08, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBThis is a class lecture delivered near the end of the semester. We had spent three months discussing different religious traditions from a political perspective. As I told students, political scientists know nothing about God or about miracles. We deal with people and politics. I also told students on the first day, and repeated it more than once, that they were not required to accept anything presented in class All they had to do was understand it well enough to explain it. Then th...
Origins of Islam: Mohammed and the Koran
July 08, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBThis is a class lecture delivered near the end of the semester. We had spent three months discussing different religious traditions from a political perspective. As I told students, political scientists know nothing about God or about miracles. We deal with people and politics. I also told students on the first day, and repeated it more than once, that they were not required to accept anything presented in class All they had to do was understand it well enough to explain it. Then th...
Origins of Islam: Mohammed and the Koran
July 08, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBThis is a class lecture delivered near the end of the semester. We had spent three months discussing different religious traditions from a political perspective. As I told students, political scientists know nothing about God or about miracles. We deal with people and politics. I also told students on the first day, and repeated it more than once, that they were not required to accept anything presented in class All they had to do was understand it well enough to explain it. Then th...
Three Detroit Area Gravestones (of really interesting people).
June 24, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBThis is a discussion of the gravestones of three really interesting people buried in the Detroit area. One was a nationally famous radio preacher, one was a survivor of the Titanic, a woman from Tibnin, Lebanon, and one was an erased aunt whose existence was discovered posthumously by her nephew (who did not know she existed and who wrote an award-winning book Annie's Ghost on the topic). Along the way you will learn about Eloise, the massive facility that housed people with emotional prob...
Three Detroit Area Gravestones (of really interesting people).
June 24, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBThis is a discussion of the gravestones of three really interesting people buried in the Detroit area. One was a nationally famous radio preacher, one was a survivor of the Titanic, a woman from Tibnin, Lebanon, and one was an erased aunt whose existence was discovered posthumously by her nephew (who did not know she existed and who wrote an award-winning book Annie's Ghost on the topic). Along the way you will learn about Eloise, the massive facility that housed people with emotional prob...
Three Gravestones (of really interesting people).
June 24, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBThis is a discussion of the gravestones of three really interesting people buried in the Detroit area. One was a nationally famous radio preacher, one was a survivor of the Titanic, a woman from Tibnin, Lebanon, and one was an erased aunt whose existence was discovered posthumously by her nephew (who did not know she existed and who wrote an award-winning book Annie's Ghost on the topic). Along the way you will learn about Eloise, the massive facility that housed people with emotional prob...
The Most Famous Public Opinion Study. How We Analyze Voting Behavior (and why people don't move around much).
June 13, 2022 02:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBThis was a class lecture on the most famous voting behavior study ever done, showing how certain variables connect to other variables to product voting outcomes. This is not as boring as it sounds. In fact, it is pretty interesting and will give you lots of insights. Plus it is not very long.
The Most Famous Public Opinion Study. How We Analyze Voting Behavior (and why people don't move around much).
June 13, 2022 02:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBThis was a class lecture on the most famous voting behavior study ever done, showing how certain variables connect to other variables to product voting outcomes. This is not as boring as it sounds. In fact, it is pretty interesting and will give you lots of insights. Plus it is not very long.
Memorial Day 2022: Reflections during a Difficult Time. .
May 29, 2022 22:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBJust two hours ago, I decided to do a podcast on Memorial Day. As someone who grew up with strong patriotic impulses, it has been a surprise to me how my perspectives have changed. Today, I think my country is in very bad shape. There is an incredible danger from extremist elements who think it will be necessary to have a violent insurrection, even a Civil War, to overthrow the extremists who now control us. I am writing this at a very depressing time in our country's history, when the...
Memorial Day 2022: Reflections during a Difficult Time. .
May 29, 2022 22:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBJust two hours ago, I decided to do a podcast on Memorial Day. As someone who grew up with strong patriotic impulses, it has been a surprise to me how my perspectives have changed. Today, I think my country is in very bad shape. There is an incredible danger from extremist elements who think it will be necessary to have a violent insurrection, even a Civil War, to overthrow the extremists who now control us. I am writing this at a very depressing time in our country's history, when the...
The Origins Of Public Opinion
May 25, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBPublic Opinion did not emerge Full-Blown from some father's head (to borrow from Greek mythology). In fact, the very concept of public opinion evolved over time. This is the first of a two-part introduction to the concept of public opinion focusing on how early scholars saw it. The second lecture (these were delivered in class) will show how empirical public opinion research refined the concept.
The Origins Of Public Opinion
May 25, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBPublic Opinion did not emerge Full-Blown from some father's head (to borrow from Greek mythology). In fact, the very concept of public opinion evolved over time. This is the first of a two-part introduction to the concept of public opinion focusing on how early scholars saw it. The second lecture (these were delivered in class) will show how empirical public opinion research refined the concept.
The Origins Of Public Opinion Research
May 25, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBPublic Opinion did not emerge Full-Blown from some father's head (to borrow from Greek mythology). In fact, the very concept of public opinion evolved over time. This is the first of a two-part introduction to the concept of public opinion focusing on how early scholars saw it. The second lecture (these were delivered in class) will show how empirical public opinion research refined the concept.
Is Roe v Wade Doomed? The Leaked Alito Decision
May 09, 2022 21:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBOn May 2, 2022, the draft In 1973 the Supreme Court handed down its stunning decision, Roe v Wade, decriminalizing abortion and declaring that women had a constitutional right to privacy in their health decisions. After 49 years, almost every child-bearing age female has grown up under this ruling. But the Republican Party has spent 49 years committed to overturning it. Today the Supreme Court has a 5-person bloc of Originalist Justices who have made a decision to overturn Roe and its ...
Is Roe v Wade Doomed? The Leaked Alito Decision
May 09, 2022 21:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBOn May 2, 2022, the draft In 1973 the Supreme Court handed down its stunning decision, Roe v Wade, decriminalizing abortion and declaring that women had a constitutional right to privacy in their health decisions. After 49 years, almost every child-bearing age female has grown up under this ruling. But the Republican Party has spent 49 years committed to overturning it. Today the Supreme Court has a 5-person bloc of Originalist Justices who have made a decision to overturn Roe and its ...
Background to Islam: Not What You Think.
May 07, 2022 20:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBThis is a multi-part lecture I delivered to students in my class on Religion and Politics. This focuses on the context within which Islam emerged. There is an earlier talk on the Satanic Verses if you are interested. As I would always do, I asked students for reactions to these lectures Here is what they said. Many of you were very surprised to learn about the story of revelation and the origin of the Koran. Regarding the idea of not showing images of Mohammed, there are images of h...
Background to Islam: Not What You Think.
May 07, 2022 20:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBThis is a multi-part lecture I delivered to students in my class on Religion and Politics. This focuses on the context within which Islam emerged. There is an earlier talk on the Satanic Verses if you are interested. As I would always do, I asked students for reactions to these lectures Here is what they said. Many of you were very surprised to learn about the story of revelation and the origin of the Koran. Regarding the idea of not showing images of Mohammed, there are images of h...
Liberation Theology: The Political Background in Latin America, especially the role of US involvement in radicalizing the region.
April 24, 2022 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBThis is part I of a two part talk. Part I deals with the political background to Liberation Theology, especially the role of US involvement in Central America as a radicalizing force. Part II deals with stories about people, particularly Archbishop Romero, who was assassinated during mass, and Che Guevara, and how they were transformed by circumstances from moderates to radicals.
Liberation Theology: The Political Background in Latin America, especially the role of US involvement in radicalizing the region.
April 24, 2022 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBThis is part I of a two part talk. Part I deals with the political background to Liberation Theology, especially the role of US involvement in Central America as a radicalizing force. Part II deals with stories about people, particularly Archbishop Romero, who was assassinated during mass, and Che Guevara, and how they were transformed by circumstances from moderates to radicals.
Liberation Theology: How Individuals became radicalized. The cases of Archbishop Romero and Che Guevara
April 24, 2022 21:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBWe often assume that radicalism emerges from radical texts. Someone reads the text and becomes a radical. But sometimes it grows from experience and the fact that a efforts at moderate reform are blocked by resistant forces.
Liberation Theology: How Individuals became radicalized. The cases of Archbishop Romero and Che Guevara
April 24, 2022 21:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBWe often assume that radicalism emerges from radical texts. Someone reads the text and becomes a radical. But sometimes it grows from experience and the fact that a efforts at moderate reform are blocked by resistant forces.
Legendary Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard: Controversial, destructive, creative, racist.
April 15, 2022 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBOrville Hubbard: His Life and Career This is based on a zoom talk I did with Community Conversations, a social activist group associated with Littlefield Presbyterian Church of Dearborn, Michigan in May of 2021. It is a broad discussion of the life and career of Orville Hubbard, for 36 years the creative but extremely controversial mayor of Dearborn. I think Hubbard was one of the most unique political figures in 20th century America. Because the audience had many Dearborn people, the...
Legendary Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard: Controversial, destructive, creative, racist.
April 15, 2022 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBOrville Hubbard: His Life and Career This is based on a zoom talk I did with Community Conversations, a social activist group associated with Littlefield Presbyterian Church of Dearborn, Michigan in May of 2021. It is a broad discussion of the life and career of Orville Hubbard, for 36 years the creative but extremely controversial mayor of Dearborn. I think Hubbard was one of the most unique political figures in 20th century America. Because the audience had many Dearborn people, the...
Legendary Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard: Controversial and destructive, but creative. And racist.
April 15, 2022 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBOrville Hubbard: His Life and Career This is based on a zoom talk I did with Community Conversations, a social activist group associated with Littlefield Presbyterian Church of Dearborn, Michigan in May of 2021. It is a broad discussion of the life and career of Orville Hubbard, for 36 years the creative but extremely controversial mayor of Dearborn. I think Hubbard was one of the most unique political figures in 20th century America. Because the audience had many Dearborn people, the...
Populorum Progressio. A papal encyclical renouncing the International Imperialism of Money; declaring that property ownership is not inviolate, and questioning whether free trade is consistent with Christian principles. .
March 30, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBPopulorum Progressio, Pope Paul VI, 1967 This was a class lecture, delivered in late 2020. (Sorry for the occasional distractions) It focuses upon one of the most significant of the papal encyclicals, one that engaged the concept of liberation theology. Paul VI considered himself a Third World Pope, someone whose responsibilities stretched far beyond the Catholic world. This is an extremely deep, very intellectual encyclical. It would be good if you would download the encyclical and ...
Populorum Progressio. A papal encyclical renouncing the International Imperialism of Money; declaring that property ownership is not inviolate, and questioning whether free trade is consistent with Christian principles. .
March 30, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBPopulorum Progressio, Pope Paul VI, 1967 This was a class lecture, delivered in late 2020. (Sorry for the occasional distractions) It focuses upon one of the most significant of the papal encyclicals, one that engaged the concept of liberation theology. Paul VI considered himself a Third World Pope, someone whose responsibilities stretched far beyond the Catholic world. This is an extremely deep, very intellectual encyclical. It would be good if you would download the encyclical and ...
Is Anti-Zionism a form of Anti-Semitism? And what do those terms mean anyway?
March 18, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBBack in 2019 I was asked by the Jewish News of Detroit to write some thoughts on whether Anti-Zionism was a form of Anti-Semitism. President Macron of France had said that it was. This was an allegation often used to attack and possibly discredit critics of Israel. But what do those terms even mean? My approach as a professor is to make sure there are clear definitions of controversial terms before we can discuss the topic. My draft essay (which the Jewish News chose NOT to publish) t...
Is Anti-Zionism a form of Anti-Semitism? And what do those terms mean anyway?
March 18, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBBack in 2019 I was asked by the Jewish News of Detroit to write some thoughts on whether Anti-Zionism was a form of Anti-Semitism. President Macron of France had said that it was. This was an allegation often used to attack and possibly discredit critics of Israel. But what do those terms even mean? My approach as a professor is to make sure there are clear definitions of controversial terms before we can discuss the topic. My draft essay (which the Jewish News chose NOT to publish) t...
Liberation Theology: Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutierrez and the Social Factor
March 10, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBThis was a class lecture. It discusses Father Gustavo Gutierrez and the concept of liberation theology. Most theology comes down from above, from theologians, from universities, from popes. Liberation Theology grows from the bottom up. The structure of society is essential to understanding this way of thinking. Injustice, inequality, historic structures dating back to colonial times hundreds of years ago. There will be several lectures in this series. For those wanting to understan...
Liberation Theology: Gustavo Gutierrez and the Social Factor
March 10, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBThis was a class lecture. It discusses Father Gustavo Gutierrez and the concept of liberation theology. Most theology comes down from above, from theologians, from universities, from popes. Liberation Theology grows from the bottom up. The structure of society is essential to understanding this way of thinking. Injustice, inequality, historic structures dating back to colonial times hundreds of years ago. There will be several lectures in this series. For those wanting to understan...
Liberation Theology: Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutierrez and the Social Factor
March 10, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBThis was a class lecture. It discusses Father Gustavo Gutierrez and the concept of liberation theology. Most theology comes down from above, from theologians, from universities, from popes. Liberation Theology grows from the bottom up. The structure of society is essential to understanding this way of thinking. Injustice, inequality, historic structures dating back to colonial times hundreds of years ago. There will be several lectures in this series. For those wanting to understan...
The Ukraine War of 2022: More Nuance and Insight than the News
February 24, 2022 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBBackground to the Ukraine War of 2022 Back in 2008 there was a crisis in Ukraine. It led to the separation of two regions from Ukraine, and the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula. I convened a Faculty Forum on the event, asking my knowledgeable colleagues to help us understand the issues. I delivered some thoughts of my own on the American role and the American interests. This talk is based on my comments at the time, and how they relate to what is happening now. There is also...
The Ukraine War of 2022: More Nuance and Insight than the News
February 24, 2022 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBBackground to the Ukraine War of 2022 Back in 2008 there was a crisis in Ukraine. It led to the separation of two regions from Ukraine, and the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula. I convened a Faculty Forum on the event, asking my knowledgeable colleagues to help us understand the issues. I delivered some thoughts of my own on the American role and the American interests. This talk is based on my comments at the time, and how they relate to what is happening now. There is also...
Liberation Theology: Some Theological Themes
February 22, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBLiberation Theology was strong in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s. It was mostly Catholic, and was concentrated in Latin America, but there were variants of it in South Africa and in the American Black Community, especially in the Detroit area. James C. Cone is a name that stands out. Those interested in an excellent discussion might look at Faith in the City by Angela D. Dillard. I read extensively in this topic and even met some liberation theologians. This is my summary of their maj...
Themes In Liberation Theology,
February 22, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBLiberation Theology was strong in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s. It was mostly Catholic, and was concentrated in Latin America, but there were variants of it in South Africa and in the American Black Community, especially in the Detroit area. James C. Cone is a name that stands out. Those interested in an excellent discussion might look at Faith in the City by Angela D. Dillard. I read extensively in this topic and even met some liberation theologians. This is my summary of their maj...
Valentine's Day: A Mushy Three Minute Love Story
February 13, 2022 20:00 - 3 minutes - 2.43 MBThis is for lovers, for aspiring lovers, and for those who (to quote an old song) gambled for love in the moonlight, but lost. And if you want a longer love story, check out When Ron Met Jane, an earlier podcast.
Valentine's Day: A Mushy Three Minute Love Story
February 13, 2022 20:00 - 3 minutes - 2.43 MBThis is for lovers, for aspiring lovers, and for those who (to quote an old song) gambled for love in the moonlight, but lost. And if you want a longer love story, check out When Ron Met Jane, an earlier podcast.
Is Whoopie Goldberg Black? Are Jews White? What do we mean by Race? And why did Whoopie get Suspended from The View?
February 11, 2022 18:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBOn February 1, 2022 Whoopie Goldberg got a two week suspension from The View, the early morning women’s talk show that she hosts. It occurred because of things she said about the Holocaust, race, and Jews as a category. This is a really complex issue. Anything in America involving “race” gets hot very quickly. We can’t even agree upon what the word “race” means. And when we move on to "racism" it becomes an explosive quagmire very quickly. This is my effort to discuss the complexit...
Is Whoopi Goldberg Black? Are Jews White? What do we mean by Race? And why did Whoopi get Suspended from The View?
February 11, 2022 18:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBOn February 1, 2022 Whoopi Goldberg got a two week suspension from The View, the early morning women’s talk show that she hosts. It occurred because of things she said about the Holocaust, race, and Jews as a category. This is a really complex issue. Anything in America involving “race” gets hot very quickly. We can’t even agree upon what the word “race” means. And when we move on to "racism" it becomes an explosive quagmire very quickly. This is my effort to discuss the complexiti...
A Year of Podcasting. First Anniversary Report to Listeners.
February 06, 2022 05:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBOn February 6,2021 I posted my first podcast. As of the morning of February 6, 2022) I have 26,001 downloads in 106 countries and 1,982 different locations around the country and around the world . This is a short report on what has happened over the last year. I discuss the origin of the podcast, what I hoped to achieve, where the listeners live, the types of topics covered in the podcasts, some of the most popular podcasts, and some feedback. That first podcast was a introduction to ...
A Year of Podcasting. First Anniversary Report to Listeners.
February 06, 2022 05:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBOn February 6,2021 I posted my first podcast. As of the morning of February 6, 2022) I have 26,001 downloads in 106 countries and 1,982 different locations around the country and around the world . This is a short report on what has happened over the last year. I discuss the origin of the podcast, what I hoped to achieve, where the listeners live, the types of topics covered in the podcasts, some of the most popular podcasts, and some feedback. That first podcast was a introduction to ...
RIP F. W. De Klerk, the Last White President of South Africa. And the Logic of Apartheid.
January 24, 2022 02:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBF. W. DeKlerk, the last White President of South Africa. The Logic of Apartheid, and how De Klerk’s perspective evolved F. W. De Klerk died in November of 2021. He came out of the very heart of the Afrikaaner establishment, and was firmly entrenched in the secret society known as the Broederbund (brotherhood). Whites were about 15% of the South African population and the Afrikaaners (of Dutch heritage) were about 60% of the white population. They controlled all the major positions of...
RIP F. W. De Klerk, the Last White President of South Africa. And the Logic of Apartheid.
January 24, 2022 02:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBF. W. DeKlerk, the last White President of South Africa. The Logic of Apartheid, and how De Klerk’s perspective evolved F. W. De Klerk died in November of 2021. He came out of the very heart of the Afrikaaner establishment, and was firmly entrenched in the secret society known as the Broederbund (brotherhood). Whites were about 15% of the South African population and the Afrikaaners (of Dutch heritage) were about 60% of the white population. They controlled all the major positions of...
RIP F. W. De Klerk, the Last White President of South Africa. And the Logic of Apartheid.
January 24, 2022 02:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBF. W. DeKlerk, the last White President of South Africa. The Logic of Apartheid, and how De Klerk’s perspective evolved F. W. De Klerk died in November of 2021. He came out of the very heart of the Afrikaaner establishment, and was firmly entrenched in the secret society known as the Broederbund (brotherhood). Whites were about 15% of the South African population and the Afrikaaners (of Dutch heritage) were about 60% of the white population. They controlled all the major positions of...
John Paul II. A Legendary Pope
January 15, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBJohn Paul II John Paul II was one of the great popes. He is now a saint. As a saint, that means he has intercessory power. Individuals can pray to him and he will take their concerns directly to God. Someone becomes a saint by performing three miracles. We will discuss what those miracles were, at least one of them. John Paul became pope during a time of significant stress. There was stress within the Church regarding what constitutes official teaching. There was also stress reg...
John Paul II. A Legendary Pope
January 15, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBJohn Paul II John Paul II was one of the great popes. He is now a saint. As a saint, that means he has intercessory power. Individuals can pray to him and he will take their concerns directly to God. Someone becomes a saint by performing three miracles. We will discuss what those miracles were, at least one of them. John Paul became pope during a time of significant stress. There was stress within the Church regarding what constitutes official teaching. There was also stress reg...
How Democracies Die. Understanding the Insurrection of January 6, 2021
January 06, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBThe Insurrection of 2021, An Anniversary Podcast On January 6, 2021 there was an attempt by an insurrectionist mob to block the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election. This uprising came within the context of an American political system that had become seriously weakened over the past decades. This weakened political system made it possible for an authoritarian leader to step into the breach. Shockingly, this pattern of the elected autocrat has been seen in other countries. ...
How Democracies Die. Understanding the Insurrection of January 6, 2021
January 06, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBThe Insurrection of 2021, An Anniversary Podcast On January 6, 2021 there was an attempt by an insurrectionist mob to block the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election. This uprising came within the context of an American political system that had become seriously weakened over the past decades. This weakened political system made it possible for an authoritarian leader to step into the breach. Shockingly, this pattern of the elected autocrat has been seen in other countries. ...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. the Moral Giant, who created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
December 27, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBArchbishop Desmond Tutu was one of the three indispensable people whose actions saved South Africa from a violent transition when that country went to majority rule. He created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an alternative to prosecutions and vengeance. He also believed that the Black struggle in South Africa and the Palestinians struggle were very parallel. He once said, we cannot be free if they are not free. I hope you will find this podcast to be morally challenging and...